Compound of five cubes

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Compound of five cubes
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Type Regular compound
Coxeter symbol2{5,3}[5{4,3}] [1]
Stellation core rhombic triacontahedron
Convex hull Dodecahedron
IndexUC9
Polyhedra5 cubes
Faces30 squares (visible as 360 triangles)
Edges60
Vertices20
Dual Compound of five octahedra
Symmetry group icosahedral (Ih)
Subgroup restricting to one constituent pyritohedral (Th)
Model of the compound in a dodecahedron Simetria rotacional 04.jpg
Model of the compound in a dodecahedron

The compound of five cubes is one of the five regular polyhedral compounds. It was first described by Edmund Hess in 1876.

Contents

It is one of five regular compounds, and dual to the compound of five octahedra. It can be seen as a faceting of a regular dodecahedron.

It is one of the stellations of the rhombic triacontahedron. It has icosahedral symmetry (Ih).

Geometry

The compound is a faceting of a dodecahedron (where pentagrams can be seen correlating to the pentagonal faces). Each cube represents a selection of 8 of the 20 vertices of the dodecahedron.

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Views from 2-fold, 5-fold and 3-fold symmetry axis

If the shape is considered as a union of five cubes yielding a simple nonconvex solid without self-intersecting surfaces, then it has 360 faces (all triangles), 182 vertices (60 with degree 3, 30 with degree 4, 12 with degree 5, 60 with degree 8, and 20 with degree 12), and 540 edges, yielding an Euler characteristic of 182 − 540 + 360 = 2.

Edge arrangement

Its convex hull is a regular dodecahedron. It additionally shares its edge arrangement with the small ditrigonal icosidodecahedron, the great ditrigonal icosidodecahedron, and the ditrigonal dodecadodecahedron. With these, it can form polyhedral compounds that can also be considered as degenerate uniform star polyhedra; the small complex rhombicosidodecahedron, great complex rhombicosidodecahedron and complex rhombidodecadodecahedron.

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Small ditrigonal icosidodecahedron
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Great ditrigonal icosidodecahedron
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Ditrigonal dodecadodecahedron
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Dodecahedron (convex hull)
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Compound of five cubes
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As a spherical tiling

The compound of ten tetrahedra can be formed by taking each of these five cubes and replacing them with the two tetrahedra of the stella octangula (which share the same vertex arrangement of a cube).

As a stellation

Stellation facets
The yellow area corresponds to one cube face. Stellation of rhombic triacontahedron 5 cubes facets.png
Stellation facets
The yellow area corresponds to one cube face.

This compound can be formed as a stellation of the rhombic triacontahedron.
The 30 rhombic faces exist in the planes of the 5 cubes.

See also

Transition to compound of four cubes Icosahedral to octahedral compound of cubes.gif
Transition to compound of four cubes

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References

  1. Regular polytopes, pp.49-50, p.98